Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-06-07

from the experience Of growers consulted,
express the belief that it will prove profit
able and important branch of horticulture
in California. The impression prevails
that it will grow in rocky and barren soil
and without fertilizers, and it will but to.
get good results it should have good soil
and fertilizers should be used Major UT
is reported by the Resources as saying that
the pro6tableness of olive culture can be
shown to the satisfaction of the most ex-
acting. His orchard of twenty-five bear
ing trees, seven years old, has largely COM
pensated him for the investment. Last
year ten of the trees produced $50 gallons
of olives. The Resources adds: ale sold
the surplus crop at forty cents per gallon,
casks furnished, or S12 per tree. Fifty
gallons of average crop to the tree at
twelve years from the planting of the or
chard would he low estimate and this
amount would make six and quarter gal
Ions of oil. Increased production will put
the wholesale price of oil to 81 per gallon,
or at the lowest S25 per tree, equal to 5000
per acre. Allow one-half for expenses and
interest on investment, and you have the
net sum of $3.50 per acre as net profit Mr..
Loop has been offered eighty cents gallon
for all the picked olives he can prepare
for the market" There is probably over
estimate in the foregoing statement. The
demonstration has been made in Solano,
Placer, and other parts that the olive will
grow admirably in Central and North
ern California. The Appeal certifes
that it hourishes finely in Yuba county.
The Lompoc Record says olive culture has
succeeded 50 well in Santa Barbara county.
that it is justified in predicting that next
season many thousands of trees will be put
out in that section. There are thirty-ive
thousand tees already planted and doing
well on the College Rancho Compare
lively no attention has been given to olive
culture in the immediate vicinity of Sacra-
mento, but there are here and there
throughout the city olive trees, and some
OF them are very large growth. But as it
costs no more to put out olive trees than
any other eyergreens, the suggestion that
more of them be planted is a good one and
ought to be acted upon. If greater num-
bers of semi-troplc trees generally were
grown in this section, were we know that
they will flourish, there would be greater
attention given to Central California by
the Eastern visitor. They are testimo-
mics to his eyes that cannot be belied bv
pamphlet Misrepresentation A small
orange grove near this city, on the line
of one of the railways, would be one
of the best investments that could be made
for the city; it would advertise this region
as scarcely anything else could. At Oro-
vile the thirty-ive acres of orange
trees is deemed the chief advertisement
of that section Two or three olive or
orange orchards near this city would pay
well as an investment if no profit was
made from the trees for many years, for
they would be living witnesses to the
truth concerning our climate, and the
capacity of this section to produce semi
tropic fruits, even stronger in the estima-
ton of Eastern visitors, than citrus fair
exhibits.